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Tuesday, 20 December 2011

The 10 Most Read Posts on The Crumpet in 2011

Top 10 Most
Popular Posts

Hi
Goddesses

It’s hard to believe that this time last year
I was ordering 10 OPIs off ebay for my own quiet and personal pleasure, with no
thoughts of a stash count circa 500 or a blog, or followers, or crazy nail
polish friends.

To end the year in style, I thought I would
share with you what the most popular posts have been since I really started
doing this in August. Some of them I agree
with, others, I have NO idea why they were so popular lol.

Enjoy xx J

10. 31
Days of Christmas with the Purple Crumpet Fairy

Posted – 25 November 2011

Views – 96

Ok, so xx of you read this posted and only 20
of you signed up lol. I totally
understand why! These challenges are
demanding and exhausting, and doing one at Christmas was *not* my best idea
ever J

Oh Beth will be so chuffed to have made the
Top 10 !! this is the franken we made
together to dupe DL Candy Shop. Beth
named it.

It’s my most popular franken post, probably
because of Candy Shop, and also because I used it for a PAA Monday Challenge,
so it has had plenty of exposure. I
think if you Google image DL Candyshop this also comes up – lol !!

This was the 2nd of 2 posts I did
on Fuchsia, and this is the non-swatch post.
I wanted to see what Fuchsia looked like over other colours as it seemed
so sheer.

This got a ton of hits in one day because Leah
Ann ran it on her page – it had been up a few days before she did that without
generating a massive amount of interest, but Leah Ann’s sponsorship of it
pushed it on J

This one totally took me by surprise, and if I’m
honest, it wasn’t till I started to get into the analytics of blog traffic that
I understood why this post was so popular.

In actual fact, it’s quite a poor post, one
of the early ones, sloppy photos and “no voice”, but the reason it’s so popular
is that Zoya love their promos, and bless them, everytime they run one, people
flock to Google images, and when they look for greens, my post is the one they
seem to find.

This was the first post that really made me
understand the crazy power of the internet.
Personally, this was not my favourite GG, yet it got a huge amount of
hits – why?

Well, I posted this just as Leah Ann’s site
and page were taking off, and I don’t think there had been too many swatches of
this up til that point. I got over 100
hits overnight, and yet hardly any extra followers!

3. The
100 Follower Giveaway

Posted – 27 October 2011

Views – 304

Well, you’d expect a Giveaway to rank highly,
wouldn’t you? I think I gained about 50
followers on FB and the blog from this Giveaway, so it was worth it, and even
better, my numbers didn’t drop right afterwards.

Wow, this post went very very crazy. I wrote it, and didn’t think it was a special
post, and I wasn’t wholeheartedly in love with the polish either. It did however feature better photography,
when I discovered the utility room made a great photo studio!

What pushed this post into the stratosphere
is that it was one of the first swatches of this polish, and for 2 weeks
afterwards, it was the No1 result on Google images – kerching! Not only that, I had about 5 photos on the front
page of Google images, so if anyone was googling this baby, they had no choice
but to run into my post!

It’s slipped a little in the Google image
stakes recently, but I’m still getting 20ish hits a day from it.

I guess it’s fitting that an OPI post should
be the most viewed, given how OPI kick-started my polish rebirth. This post just went CRAZY and again is
testament to the power of the internet and good ole Google images!

At one point, this was getting 50+ hits a
day, although it has slowed now to about 15.
Again, it had high placement on Google images, with about 3 photos on
the front page. Again, it was posted
very quickly after the launch of the polish, which I am sure contributed to its
success.

I think the main factor though is that my
pics all had this polish layered over something else, so in a sea of Google
images, they REALLY stood out, and showed that the polish had a different
dimension. I think it’s the teal photo
which has the highest ranking – and that was a particularly good combination.

What’s interesting is that this polish was
posted at the same time as all my other Muppets swatches and yet they had “normal”
numbers. I get that this was probably
the sexiest polish in the collection and the one people most wanted to see, but
other than that, it must be the layering that powered it up the ranks.

So there you have it – the most popular posts
of 2011. It doesn’t include (though it
did until recently) some of my favourite posts, and to be honest it only includes 1 colour that I LOVE (Lady of
the Lake) – how IRONIC is that? Does
this mean I should only post polishes I feel meh about? Oh no!

It also only includes 2 posts I feel shows off
my writing. The lesson ? People like the
pretty pictures!!

See you soon xxx

Enjoy J xx

J

Top Tip – if you’re
ever unsure what a nail colour looks like, go to Google images, which will give
you plenty of contrasts and compares.